Holy Well of St Stephen is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Holy well.
Holy Well of St Stephen
- WRENN ID
- crooked-cobble-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1993
- Type
- Holy well
- Address
- Holy Well of St Stephen, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 320 856
- Coordinates
- 50.64641, -4.3776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holy Well of St Stephen is a Grade II listed site located in Launceston. It consists of 18th and 19th century structures built on an ancient site. The well-heads are made of slatestone rubble, with dressed greenstone and granite. The presumed older structure is integrated into a hedge, featuring a large sump that is covered with slate slabs, one of which is broken and another supported by a stone prop. Another structure, believed to be from the 19th century, has an inverted doorway and a front gable end with kneelers. It also features a round-arched doorway with a keyblock and an inner order made of re-used 17th century chamfered granite. Inside, there is a segmental-arched stone vault that supports the stone roof.
Local climate
Holy Well of St Stephen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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